Indonesian Governance Forest Initiative Networks2011

Experiences Using Indicator Based Approaches to Improving Environmental & Forest Governance in Indonesia, and Potential Applications for REDD+

Problem on forest

mostly are lacking of financial support

Tenurial conflict are enormous, total of the conflict that had been

identified independently by our

networks (HuMA) shows that there are 2.455.539.31 Ha of

forest area has a unresolved conflict

Land/spatial/forest planning are not moving in the same track. All of the forested area in Indonesia, doesn’t had their spatial planning finnished

until today.

Almost 98% of the forest are still

consider as an open access forest (not yet being established as

a state forest). Showing that the government don’t

have the “real” authority to manage

the forest

The Pressure on the Indonesian Forest

• Promoting good governance since 2000, and starting from environmental governance, electricity governance, and now moving into the forestry governance.

• We never work alone, sub national NGO and Academicians are important key player in making a successful assessment.

• The latest assesment of Good Governance using an indicator based approach, is 2008 (conducted in 5 region all over Indonesia)

Efforts to promoting Good Governance

The Results

The Result is going beyond “research report”, we get a strong argumentation of reforming the policy advocacy in Indonesia, the most concrete thing are:

After a long wait, the government finally enacted the Public Information Disclosure Act No 14/2008. The good governance assessment that we made becoming one of the main argument for pushing this act. And with this act also, all of the public body (including ministry of forestry) are oblige to make an information system.

With also finding from our research, the supreme court enacted the supreme court Decree No. 144/2009 Regarding Judiciary Transparency. After being years under the “secrecy”, the court now become more accessible for the public to “watch”.

The research also gave us a strong argument to promote and pushing the revision of env management act. Now, within our new environmental management act, the transparency, participation, and justice becoming the main “soul” of the regulation.

Hurdle along The ProcessThose result not coming instantly after

the research are being conducted. A long process of ensuring government to understand the fact and the solution for improving governance.

Civil society “pressure” also coming handy to let the government understand the urgency. In the climate change euphoria, the urgency of improving governance becoming more clear.

Efforts to Promote Forest Governance

As a follow up for the assessment in the other sector, we are now moving forward to a forest governance assessment. At first, we don’t really realize about other initiative. Because our interest is only “reforming the forest sectors”, like we did in the environmental governance (still need follow up, but already opening the opportunity

At first we want to conduct the assessment with the available indicators from The Access Initiative™. Since we are one of the partners, and the results is working to make change.

But then, at the same time, the Governance Forest Initiatives (GFI) raised by the WRI and Imazon-ICV, so we joining the global team to develop the indicators.

Looking at the global indicators

Global indicators consist of

fundamental values that needed to create a

good forest governance

Terms, Language, definitions, specific characteristic, case specification, etc. need to be contextualized

Brazilian context

Indonesian context

Cameroon context

Other country partners context??

What is Needed to AddressAspect Facts need to be

deliveredExpected Outcome

Tenure Condition that shows the bad/good administration process in the context of forest utilization, cultivation, possession and ownership by the local community

Government understanding that the most important in tenure management is not certainty or un certainty. But the clarity.

Land Use Plan Condition that shows the mis-coordination of land use planning process that lead to high rate deforestation

Recommendation for the government regarding the critical and priority point to improve on the context of land use coordination

Aspect Facts need to be delivered

Expected Outcome

Forest Management

Empirical facts that government “don’t have the control over the forest area”. And the urgency not only establishing FMU’s, but creating a coherent and comprehensive system for the FMU’s.

Government understanding of the importance to develop a more effective FMU’s as soon as possible.

Revenue Facts that government are lack of adequate forest budget management and causing Indonesia “seems” like a poor country – reversing the “resources curse”

More transparent and progressive anti corruption budget system being developed

What is Needed to Address

The importance of indicator based approach on improving good governance

Developing a clear, measurable, verifiable, and reportable advocacy tools to checking the fulfillment of basic human rights.

Tools to identify the gap between the minimum requirement condition of good forest governance and the implementation at field

A tools that make advocacy (specially in a develop world / democratic transition) “you can’t deny...but you should clarify..”

A simple, effective and simple way to provide civil society a tools to conduct natural resources advocacy and campaign. Especially in a society that transforming from a “authoritarian regime” to a more democratic regime.

Strategy

Creating the demand from the public to gaining publics fundamental procedural rights

Capacity from within

Pressure from without

Indicator Based Approach in The Forestry Sector (REDD) is crucial• No measurement on forestry governance in Indonesia exists at the

moment.

• Indonesia government sets REDD+ as its priority

• Several project of REDD is on the phase of readiness, and now moving fast

• Large scale of donors are interested to support the Indonesian Government to implement REDD+

• Without any governance improvement, it’s impossible to implement REDD+..Why??

Governance is the Enabling Conditions of REDD+

Corruption index for Indonesia is still very high, and REDD+ offering big “$”

Administration aspects is still weak and REDD+ need an adequate MRV system to make a concrete

The bureaucrats are still having the biggest power, leaving all the professionalism behind, in this condition, REDD+ will only becoming “project”

Law guarantee the governance is still not changing the condition, need more directive and detail system to create change. REDD+ need more than just a legal basis

Good governance will will become the basis that REDD+ will benefited the local communities and creating justice

conclusion indicator based approach for forestry governance will

provide all stakeholders with the same data, identified gap, and priorities to fulfill the gap

with that, all stakeholders will have a common perspective on what to do to overcome forestry governance problems

Finally there are still hope to make a change